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Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla

posted by martyb on Friday August 24 2018, @06:11AM   
from the the-car-looks-like-a-robot-snack dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled a sleek electric concept car that its creators say will compete with Elon Musk's market leader Tesla.

Based on the body of a Soviet hatchback Izh, Kalashnikov's CV-1 electric vehicle's 90 kilowatt hour battery gives it a range of 350 kilometers. The arms company says the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 6 seconds.

The brand, best known for the AK-47 machine gun, on Thursday presented the retro-looking pale blue prototype, the CV-1 at a defence expo outside Moscow.

Earlier this week, online users ridiculed Kalashnikov's new bipedal combat robot. The golden-colour machine, reportedly named "Igoryok" in production stages, immediately became a subject of social media memes.

Is the car going to be a threat to troubled Tesla?

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Original Submission

• Package Deal? Package Deal? (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @12:46PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @12:46PM (#725769)

  I'm all in and ready to collude; I'll take a car, a mech and an AK-47!

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• Re:Package Deal? (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 24 2018, @05:48PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 24 2018, @05:48PM (#725933) Journal

  I think you hit the 'post anonymously' box by accident there, Donald.

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